Avon Wildlife Trust Volunteer Placements

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Are you committed, passionate and keen to learn more? Would you like a career inspiring people to engage with nature? Do you want to gain experience within the environmental sector?

Avon Wildlife Trust offers volunteer placements positions from time to time. These aim to provide volunteers with work-based experience that can support career development, providing opportunities to take on more responsibility and learn new skills. Each placement is supported by a member of staff to encourage individual learning development and assist with targeted training opportunities.

All new placement oppportunities will be advertised here.

Grow Leader Placement

We recruit for Grow Leader Placement volunteers every 6 months.

These placements form part of Feed Bristol's core crew and they are formal positions which require you to be able to commit to two days per week for nine months.

Developing skills in our Grow Leader team and giving people meaningful work experience forms the backbone of this inspirational community project. This enables us to engage with a broad range of community groups to demonstrate social impact and drive the project’s vision forward to become a centre of excellence that champions ecology and food growing. In the first three years we supported 40 people into employment through this process.

A role description can be found at the bottom of the page and if interested please contact volunteer@avonwildlifetrust.org.uk for more details about the next round of recruitment.

Natural Estates

Volunteering opportunities for 14-24 years olds.

Feed Bristol Tuesdays:

Come for a taster session, stay to explore and come back to take action and make positive changes for wildlife and yourself.

NEst (Natural Estates) are working at Feed Bristol every Tuesday to support young people aged 14* to 24 to get involved with the exciting work that is happening at Feed Bristol.

Year 10 Work experience:

One or two week work experience opportunities with Avon Wildlife Trust, led by NEst available for Year 10 students.

Capacity for small groups, up to six pupils together, or individuals throughout the year. Booking essential.

A week of hands on activities that could include reserve management, youth and community engagement activities, conservation projects, Trust events planning and delivery, research, photography, monitoring and observing wildlife – programme overseen by Matt and Catherine, NEst officers.
And if that isn’t enough NEst’s school holiday programme provides opportunities to continue and develop your work experience through volunteering and further conservation projects.